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Works in the exhibition Jacob Barua Nairobi – A Utopia in the Eye of the Beholder, 2007–2012 Series of 39 photographs, text Courtesy of the artist Sam Hopkins I Kevo Stero Ochuos Funeral, 2011 Slide show 11 video interviews of the reenachment of the funeral of Ochuo on four monitors, wooden cross, coffin Courtesy of the artists Laura Horelli The Terrace, 2011 HD video installation, color, sound, 24 min., loop Courtesy of Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin Laura Horelli Terrace of European Single Person in Kileleshwa, 2011 Text and color photographs on Alu-Dibond, six parts Courtesy of Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin Maasai Mbili Chokora Wear, 2011 Video, 10 min., clothing Courtesy of the artists James Muriuki Untitled (from un-defined constructions), # 1 – 4, 2010–2011 Photographs, Plexiglas, Alu Dibond Courtesy of the artist Studio Propolis Exhibition architecture 2012 Page 10 | 14
Maasai Mbili, Chokora Wear, 2011 What is Chokora Wear? This is a contemporary fashion research project whose aim is the creation of a clothing line designed by locals, for locals with the assistance of artists and local fashion designers. Chokora Wear is involved in research as to how individual identity, personality, and culture can be reclaimed through fashion. Chokora is a Swahili word which can mean »to dig into« or »things that are given to street people,« thus lending this project its name. The research project is divided across three areas in Kenya, namely Nairobi’s poor Kibera slum, Diani Beach, Mombasa’s coastal area, where inhabitants lead simple lives, and northern Kenya’s Turkana District with its arid and harsh conditions. The aim of the project is to create a clothing line that participants of the project would themselves find desirable, that creates a »look« and also sends out a message. These ideas are to then be shared with other people. Concept Clothes are a basic human need. They are distributed via a system known as business business, business the clothing business, and this business is also the trend. trend. The public later exhibits the clothes in public spaces in another system called fashion. fashion. This fashion then becomes the public’s culture culture. culture Many things occur during this process, but very few people are aware that they are involved in the process process. process The few who do understand this, research what the rest of us like, to create something they call design design. design This design is created for us according to our differing life styles. Within fashion, design creates a desire for more. Interviews that the project has been conducted showed, that everyone has a new kind of modern modern fashion fashion fashion sense mostly derived from international celebrities, who always wear the newest fashions. This has led to people forming a kind of »positive positive selfishness selfishness« selfishness and a desire to be more attractive to others and more attractive than others. This research was conducted in an attempt to demonstrate to people that they could fulfill their own desire for originality and their craving for whatever it is they consider to be fashion, simply by creating their own! Page 11 | 14
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